In the spirit of Rev. Martin
Luther King, Jr. with our Bible and Constitution always close at hand, "We
will overcome," drug abuse with compassion, science based education and
treatment.

Allow history to repeat itself,
repeal prohibition. Gain better control by regulating all drugs like we do
pharmaceuticals, tobacco or alcohol. We tolerate the
salesmen of these drug gangs that cause more death annually than all illicit
drugs.

As my fellow reformer, Suzanne
Wills at Drug
Policy Forum of Texas points out, "If drug violence were due to Americans
appetite for drugs, drug violence would have begun when Americans began using
drugs. It didnt."

The real danger to society
is prohibition. Our prohibitive drug policies trigger violence in our streets
and across our borders - 5,612 people were executed in Mexico's drug war in
2008, over 1,600 in Juarez alone. Prohibition
has destroyed many lives and families in the US, wasting trillions in
tax dollars, causing 37 million arrests for nonviolent offenses.

The best way to stop the drug wars in Juarez
may be to legalize the drugs here in the United States, according to El
Paso City Council. They unanimously approved a resolution (1/6/2009) asking
the
U.S. government to begin a serious debate on legalizing narcotics.
But Mayor
John Cook vetoed the resolution hours after it passed.

City Council representative Beto O'Rourke
noted, "We need to say something that is a, probably difficult for anyone
to say, which is one, has the drug war been successful; two, if not should
we continue it; and three, given that should we look at legalizing, controlling
and taxing drugs and narcotics in the United States?" He says, next week's
agenda is likely to include an item calling for the override
of the mayor's veto, which would take seven votes by the nine-member council.

The drug war fuels corruption of public officials and
injustice in our courts. The statistics reveal that racism is epidemic in
the drug war. It's the elephant in the living room being ignored by servants
of tyranny.

Problems don't go away just
because the government makes them illegal; they just go underground. Then
a black market creates worse problems; since sellers cannot rely on police
to protect their property, they arm themselves and form gangs. The more despicable
sellers recruit minors to sell to their peers, charge monopoly prices and
kill the competition. Some buyers steal to pay the high prices.

Based on a 2003 study by addiction
researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo, alcohol makes
domestic violence 8xs more likely. Marijuana does not.

While we police nonviolent
social, medicinal and religious drug use, murderers and violent sexual predators
roam free. Across
the US last year 38.8% of the murders, 60% of the rapes and 45.9% of the
aggravated assaults became cold case files! The cumulative effect of this
is horrendous.

This policy bordering on insanity
obviously is not the best use of our limited resources or making our neighborhoods
safer. Get tough on violent offenders, drug warriors don't have to look far
for something better to do.

Obama still claims to want
our input. Please take a moment and log onto the Change.gov
site to voice your support for questions pertaining to drug policy reform.
Most are listed under, "Additional Issues," so click on that link
on your left to find them fast.

Dean
Becker, Producer - Drug
Truth Network went to Victoria Texas recently to see the new movie "Drug
Wars - Silver or Lead." He interviewed
the director Rusty Fleming, Fred Burton of Stratfor (an anti terrorism organization)
as well as two Texas sheriffs from the border region. It is definitely time
to reexamine this policy of drug prohibition.

"I want to kill Osama's fattest cash cow, eviscerate the cartels and
paramilitary, eliminate the reason for which most violent street gangs exist
in the US and take away our children's easy access to drugs. --- anybody who
objects is a dang fool." Dean puts in plain enough.

Almost all elected officials
are afraid of being called soft on crime but with more than 1 in 100 American
adults behind bars we need to reassess criminal justice policy. Sen.
Jim Webb (D from Virginia) is courageously calling for a national commission
for this purpose. Servants of the people will fearlessly join Senator Webb,
get tough on violent crime and treat nonviolent drug abusers as patients not
criminals.

In a recent Raw
Story interview, drug czar, John Ashcroft did not deny the sequence of
events that sparked a power struggle which saw the White House re-authorize
its own program without the approval of the Justice Department.."So,
I think the system worked. And I'm glad that it did. It may not prove a whole
lot about a lot of things."

That's when our blessed departing
drug czar floored the audience by saying, "It may just prove that when
I have a lot of morphine in my system, I make the right decisions."

He is referring to the morphine
drip button many hospitals give to patients in enormous pain, he adds in jest,
"Maybe I should have kept one of those at my desk throughout my administration.
Make better decisions." Could he actually be coming to realize some of
his mistakes?

Here are a dear friends suggested
New Years Resolutions for avoiding misery! "Choose to love, rather than
hate. ~ Choose to smile, rather than frown. ~ Choose to build, rather than
destroy. ~ Choose to persevere, rather than quit. ~ Choose to praise, rather
than gossip. ~ Choose to heal, rather than wound. ~ Choose to give, rather
than take. ~ Choose to act, rather than delay. ~ Choose to forgive, rather
than curse. ~ Choose to pray, rather than despair," by Anonymous

Choose to join the Easy
Revolution! The web is the fastest growing communications medium in the
history of the world. A powerful tool, a window of opportunity, in our war
of good over evil; the Internet continues to revolutionize the way we communicate
and has enormous potential for reshaping the political process.

Servants of tyranny support
continuing this abomination of a drug war. Servants of the people support
reform to a
better drug policy that truly makes our neighborhoods safer. Restore justice
in America; construct science based drug policies about saving and rehabilitating
instead of ruining lives. Allow nonviolent adults to take responsibility for
their own choices.

The real cause of this huge
quagmire of failed policy is the beast, big government, that money hungry
beast, Uncle Sam! Ma
Freedom tells it like it is! The beauty of it is when we focus on downsizing
our government we regain our roots of self-government and secure the blessings
of liberty for ourselves and future generations.